Caterpillar 12 grader

... slightly off-track but not too much ... bigpond is down at the moment and emails aren't happening. They're on to it. >

Sew Bugly
How Big iz u're Pond
LOL

Hopefully the pond is big enough to hold it all .Be interesting to see when it fires up again if it goes into overload ,when all the emails start flying .

.......the suspense is killing me....this stuff is super sleuth work!!!

Right O , Some Photos of the Cat 12

thankyou Ianoz

Talking to John parks from the USA quote

If the serial number #12 525 is accurate....then you have a 7T 525 made in 1945. It can not be a 9K 525 because of the fuel system, governor, injectors and lines.

I found the Waugh and Stepehenson plate just below the cab with 19 or as Onetrack has suggested a12 525serial number

Previously I had seen it written on the cab

The backout light and horn give a military flavour

NRMak
Gudday M8



Ifn u get th@ beast up n gradin
u jist dunno how mnay friends u have
they will all cum out of the woodwork
n want u to grade there drive...............Monthly
LOL
Duz look modern ................. other than the cab
if th@ grader dates back to WWII then wot B de model with the smaller wheels on front
or twaz it an option
Cya
[ch9786]

HI Swishy dunno

being all mechanical makes i reasonably old , when you say smaller wheels at front are u referring to autopatrol cat 10 or 11 perhaps these are all 1400 x24

ol mate up the road has has grader, allis 45 or thereabouts, council use to be gd for a carton or two for everyone else .

I swap em some water when the creek is out for a quick swipe of our driveway when they are fixing our roads , we have about 10 kms to the bitumen

NRMak
Gudday M8

Sorry Me mighta side trakd U
twaz thinkn of the smaller front wheel V:


Least the cab looks more modern






Cya
[ch9787]

Swishy could the one in the pictures be a derivative or descendant of the cat 12 that being a 212 which is a smaller grader as the tyres look smaller overall and weighs a few ton less?

what do u think?